Trager®, REIKI & SWEDISH MASSAGE

By NAVA WIEGERT

Who I am | What Trager® is | WHAT REIKI IS | What Swedish Massage is | Contact

An inventor, designer, and crafter of inanimate objects and experiences, I grew inspired to elevate the potential of our living form. I bolstered my University of Michigan BFA with LMT licensure via Seattle’s elite Discoverypoint. Immediately I specialized in a uniquely gentle and elegant form of fascial release and structural decompression by means of twelve months of professional mentorship. I then gained certification in The Trager® Approach through a pioneering seven-month intensive program led by world-renowned instructors who trained directly with Dr. Milton Trager. I continue to deepen my understanding by seeking training with the world’s current masters. As a result of it all, I feel blessed to offer an ever-evolving and exceptional work of healing art.

In addition to teaching alongside my revered mentors, private practice, and serving as Vice President of Trager® Northwest and a Board Member of the Trager® Foundation, I work with Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt and Dr. Christine Schaffner as a core practitioner on their world-class healing team at the Sophia Health Institute.

Based on the conviction that physical change follows a change of mind, Dr. Trager developed a unique and highly effective method that skillfully reaches the nervous system by addressing the body in singular ways.

Dr. Milton Trager recognized well before contemporary knowledge on neuroplasticity that new information introduced to areas in the unconscious mind, gently and with skill, activates positive neurological changes which improve movement patterns. He referred to his work as psychophysical integration.

Trager® Approach Practitioners work in a calm, cultivated, meditative state, what Dr. Trager called "hook-up." Using the language of touch and movement they promote sensory awareness and ease of movement. Trager® sessions include gentle bouncing, stroking, elongations and a variety of playful body movements received in a calming, pleasurable atmosphere. Cumulative in nature, this work promotes ease, physical mobility, and a renewed lasting awareness of agelessness.

A mental, emotional and physical education, Trager® sends clients into the world with the physical efficiency and coordination that leads to effortless movement. Milton Trager called this feeling a place beyond relaxation, a place of peace.

Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which a "universal energy" is said to be transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the patient in order to encourage emotional or physical healing.

Reiki is a pseudoscience,[1] and is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in scholarly texts and academic journal articles. It is based on qi ("chi"), which practitioners say is a universal life force, although there is no empirical evidence that such a life force exists.[2][3] Clinical research has not shown reiki to be effective as a treatment for any medical condition.[2] There has been no proof of the effectiveness of reiki therapy compared to placebo. An overview of reiki investigations found that studies reporting positive effects had methodological flaws. The American Cancer Society stated that reiki should not replace conventional cancer treatment,[4] a sentiment echoed by Cancer Research UK[5] and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.[6]

Developed in Japan in 1922 by Mikao Usui,[1][7] it has been adapted into varying cultural traditions across the world.

The Swedish massage techniques vary from light to vigorous. Swedish massage uses five styles of strokes. The five basic strokes are effleurage (sliding or gliding), petrissage (kneading), tapotement (rhythmic tapping), friction (cross fiber or with the fibers) and vibration/shaking.[64] Swedish massage has shown to be helpful in reducing pain, joint stiffness, and improving function in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee over a period of eight weeks.[65] The development of Swedish massage is often inaccurately credited to Per Henrik Ling, though the Dutch practitioner Johann Georg Mezger applied the French terms to name the basic strokes. The term "Swedish" massage is actually only recognized in English and Dutch speaking countries, and in Hungary. Elsewhere the style is referred to as "classic massage".

Clinical studies report that Swedish Massage can effectively reduce low back pain and the effectiveness can last for as long as 15 weeks. One study reported that Swedish Massage caused reduction in salivary cortisol indicating its role in management of stress and improvement in mood.

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